"Auntie, second lady, third lady, fourth lady, fifth lady, sixth lady, seventh lady, child wants to take the scientific exam this year." Zheng Lang suddenly said during dinner.

"Son, are you a little younger?" the old lady asked worriedly.

"I just go and try it. It's better to pass the exam. If I don't pass the exam, I can learn from my lessons."

"Langer has grown up and has become sensible," Erniang said happily.

"I don't want to grow up. Every time I grow up one year, the empresses will grow one year older." Zheng Lang said from his heart. After five years, when the aunt came, she was less than fifty years old, and Qi Niang was only in her thirties. In the blink of an eye, the aunt's hair appeared a little gray, and the beautiful Liu Niang Qi Niang's crow's feet were deepening.

The seven women gave him a sense of happiness, but he was very frightened and worried that something unfortunate would happen to a certain empress when she woke up overnight.

If the son could say this, what else could the seven women say? Zheng Lang was very happy, and the seven women were happier.

This time, Zheng Lang was a little anxious to take the scientific examination. In his opinion, he would have to spend one year or two years, and it was just right to participate in the examination. However, if the Eight Kings... want to give him some small trouble, it would be better to have half of his fame and fortune.

And the uncertainty of scientific research in recent years should also be given.

It turned out that although the admission rate of the Northern Song Dynasty was low, it took the exam almost every year. Later, it gradually became one for two years. When encountering special circumstances, it might take one for four or five years. For example, in March last year, the imperial edict was issued to suspend the tribute examination, and in March this year, the imperial edict also suspended the tribute examination.

The imperial edict is divided into two aspects: one refers to the suspension of provincial trials by which the scholars who have entered Beijing have participated. Then the imperial court had to pay the travel expenses and send them back to their hometowns. The second refers to the national tribute, including the Examination and other imperial examinations, all of which were stopped.

Sometimes the provincial examinations are even prepared to be held, but they are immediately interrupted because special events happen. For example, this year, Concubine Li died in February, and the provincial examinations were suspended in the court. The young emperor did not know the reason, and it was too easy to find a reason. But the prime ministers must find a reason, otherwise the truth will be revealed. Grandma, my biological mother is dead, you are still busy working together in the scientific examination, and your lifelong career will end here.

Therefore, the former does not affect the normal conduct of the examination. For example, the imperial edict seems to be suspended next year, but the examination will still be held after the autumn. The examination candidates who passed the examination rushed to the capital like sheep to participate in the provincial examination in the following year.

But all these brought a lot of unnecessary waste to the country, so it gradually became customized every three years.

Zheng Lang originally planned to be the next year's trial, but the Eight Kings... and the storm meeting in the capital next year, so he also wanted to join in the fun.

And for the sake of the old lady, I took the exam and showed it to her. Next year, the old lady... will not be able to see it. This is also a reward.

But it is just a test. You can't just go to the state government to get a token and enter the examination room. There are still many procedures to be done. First, you have to hand over the tester's family statement. This family statement is the situation of the family, the background of the ancestors, which is equivalent to the later household registration file.

Then ten people in the village have to be insured, and they can’t be either cats or dogs, and they can be qualified to stroll in the examination room. Someone must guarantee it so that the candidates can be real students.

There are other things that disabled people cannot take the imperial examinations. It is not that they discriminate against disabled people. The civil officials of the Song Dynasty were very good. They were in charge of national affairs in the court, and they were able to manage government affairs in the localities, and they were the commander in the army. It turned out that they all became ministers such as Wei Jun and Pei Xingjian who were both civil and military.

It is not very convenient for disabled people to become officials.

No relatives above who have committed the crime of great rebellion cannot participate. The relatives of the mourning are the name of mourning. In the case of mourning for three months, all men who are great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, brothers of the clan, as well as grandchildren, nephew, son-in-law, wife's parents, cousins, aunts, etc., are all mourning. This is not a mourning, that is, these relatives who have committed the crime of great rebellion are not qualified to participate in the imperial examination.

Those who are unfilial and unkind have similarities in filial piety. One focuses on parents, and the other focuses on elders and elder brothers. People with industrial and commercial differentiators cannot participate, but they also explicitly stipulate that geniuses can make exceptions to participate in the imperial examination. In fact, it was difficult to explain the relationship between industry and commerce and landlords in the Song Dynasty. For example, the profits obtained by the Zheng Lang family were far less than those of cloth shops. Strictly speaking, the Zheng family was a merchant or a landlord? Some big businessmen even worked hard and also passed the imperial examination, took off their business services, and changed into official uniforms.

Finally, there are those who are still obedient. One of the most hated places among rulers is that religion needs to be used to justify their reputation, but religion often becomes a stumbling block for them. They occupy a lot of fields and take in the people under the temples to avoid national taxation. Some are indeed desperate, but there are also many lazy people who are lazy and eat and eat, and they go to the empty doors and see good opportunities. These people have brought serious difficulties to the governance of local officials. Therefore, setting up this article is also a warning. You can be a monk or a Taoist priest. If you do it, don’t return to the secular world, or don’t do it, and be a good citizen with peace of mind.

This is the responsibility of the guarantor.

It is not over yet, and the examination is over. The guarantor must guarantee these candidates to enter the Beijing Provincial Examination. If there is any loss, the guarantor will be in trouble. This is the first time, and there will be no need for the guarantor to be in a row in the future. It is very similar to the trump card in the Water Margin.

The country has spent so much effort. It is not only for you to give you one test, but also for the save test, and for the palace test to serve the court. This is the real meaning of the imperial examination in the court.

In short, most of them followed the imperial examination system of the Tang Dynasty and made some improvements. They were a little chaotic at the beginning, including now. However, some policies are very positive, that is, support for poor children.

For example, the name system and copying system give poor children a fair scientific examination environment. In addition, the government subsidizes schools, and the admission of poor children is free, and the cost of students' scientific examinations is also funded by the government. Of course, if I have money, I can take ten beautiful girls to the Beijing Provincial Examination, then I'm sorry, I pay for the extra expenses myself. Therefore, the young emperor had thirteen scientific examinations in his life, and twelve of the thirteen top scholars were born in civilian families. Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, and Su Dongpo were all beneficiaries of this policy.

The empresses didn't know that their son took the imperial examination in advance to fight with the Eight Great Kings, so they were very happy. (I guess they would be scared to death if they knew it)

My son is right, it is even worse to pass the exam. If he doesn’t pass the exam, he will come back next time.

But isn't that the case?

ps: If you don’t explain it, I’m afraid you don’t understand the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty. Once you explain it, you have too many “information”, so you will extract most of the chapters and put them in the public version to upload.

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I saw that the readers were leisurely in their impressions, and they liked it very much. They were not good at writing pretentiously and were too frivolous, so I deliberately suppressed some links and would not deliberately write more of these surprised expressions. If there were too many, it would be boring. The game was also slowly spread layer by layer. It should start from this volume, and gradually move towards the magnificent background of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Let me talk about the time of uploading. I originally wanted to save some manuscripts, but the time was urgent, and I wanted everyone to read the public version more comfortably and have a fairness. So I passed them all. After entering the V, I had to pass the code immediately. In addition, the chapters were expanded. It may be that there were only two updates a day, and at 8:00 am and 8:00 pm. I will also work hard to get the third update, so I will add one update at 2:00 pm. If there is a small outbreak, I will notify in advance, and the time may not be necessary.

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